DMOZ Submisson Status http://www.rileyinteractive.com/

I am inquiring about the status of this site.

the site is:
http://www.rileyinteractive.com

I believe the category was:
http://dmoz.org/Business/SmallBusiness/Marketing

thanks...

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

Augh.

Over 500 unreviewed, and most of those are toxic-waste-scum spam.

I'll take a pass through and try to leave a stream of unreviewed that a small-business-minded editor wouldn't mind reviewing. But at best this may take awhile.

Do you meet clients face to face in your office or theirs? And does your website mention the area in which you work? If so, please also submit to your locality's business&economy category, which will probably get reviewed more quickly.

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

tnkx for such a quick response hutcheson -

I was thinking about resubmitting to a geograp loc per your suggestion as I've learned alot about what appeals to my clients since submitting to this category last Nov.

if you can - please delete me outathe queue to lighten the load - i appreciate the volunteer effort - tnks - OUT

riels

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

OK, 200 unrevieweds moved out. This includes affiliate, MLM, and ponzi scammers; the providers of wood, wood cutting equipment, fireplaces, furniture, molybdenum, epoxy; the tanning salons, realtors, and neighborhood watches, sites in German, French, Spanish, Russian, and various languages I can't identify, let alone read.... Maybe half of the ones left are plausible candidates for this category.

So, the latest news: over 300 unreviewed, many not appropriate, and your submittal is still there. Don't get the wrong impression from these numbers. I did the EASY stuff, the "Make $5000.00 monthly from your home without doing ANYTHING!" "The SixFigureIdiot program that teaches you how to achieve all your dreams of avarice".... etc. The rest is going to be harder work, and another 50-200 of them are going to turn out to be the same garbage, only better shrouded and disguised.

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>OK, 200 unrevieweds moved out. This includes affiliate, MLM, and ponzi scammers; the providers of wood, wood cutting equipment, fireplaces, furniture, molybdenum, epoxy; the tanning salons, realtors, and neighborhood watches, sites in German, French, Spanish, Russian, and various languages I can't identify, let alone read.... Maybe half of the ones left are plausible candidates for this category.

I am still trying to figure out why so many people submit to grossly wrong cats? I just cleared out a huge number of such in some new cat space. Now, the spammers I can understand. However, a lot of these were respectable enough looking sites just submitted to an obviously wrong cat. And, I still can't imagine all the misplaced foreign language submissions. Unless they perhaps are all just spam in a language I can't read? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

There are lots of reasons.

Not all ODP licensees include the foreign-language categories, so people submitting from there don't see any other options. And our @link farms aren't as comprehensive as they should be, so sometimes people start browsing down the wrong category, and have no way of getting over to where they should be. I consider these badly submitted sites to be a service to us -- telling us where we should have been adding @links. (We take whatever help we're offered.)
Some people can't sort beans by color. This doesn't mean they can't function normally in some niche in society, or that they can't provide valuable commercial services. (And, face it, even good bean-sorting takes some skill and practice, which most people have never had.)

There are some people who are too lazy to submit their site to the right place, it might take 5 minutes of their time. They don't consider that they might be losing three months to three years of site promotion because they are giving the site to editors who have much more important and interesting things to do, rather than editors who want to list that kind of site. I'd call this "antisocial" rather than either "malicious" or "stupid", although you could argue that rudness is an ethical issue as well as a sapiental one. I'd call it "shortsighted" too. But that doesn't mean they haven't done us a (very small) service, in pointing out a site we didn't have already.

Some people are just too stupid to be allowed to use a keyboard -- but there are no laws against them owning one: so the cons that start scams like "sixfigureincome" make a lot of money off of subhuman stupidity and cupidity. And we see all the time wasted in yet more websites with copies of the same old scams. We have to be able to handle these: it's a universal law: stupidity causes problems for everyone around the perpetrator. And there's no cure.

Some people are actually doing what they were taught in marketing class. There was the pestilential pencil retailer that submitted his site to Arts/Literature/Authors because authors needed writing paraphernalia -- he thought he was "targeting his audience" or some such tomfoolery. Again, just because they've been trained to be pests doesn't mean their sites shouldn't be listed.

Some are just plain malicious, but (when given full credit for lack of skill, stupidity, or misunderstanding) this is really a _very_ small group. I'd estimate well under 0.1% of all submitters. They do cause disproportionate trouble -- on some days, certainly over 20% of all submittals.
All of which says, as bad as the submittal queues may seem at times, they probably work about as well as they could. And they do provide a significant proportion of all ODP listings. (The ODP might still be bigger than Yahoo without them, but it wouldn't be much bigger.)

Staus of Submission - Thanks

My Log files show that DMOZ visited my site. Any word on the status of http://www.rileyinteractive.com submitted to
Regional: North America: United States: Massachusetts: Regions: Western

Re: Staus of Submission - Thanks

Please see my reply in your original thread.

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

In reply to your new thread post: It was listed earlier today in Williamsburg.

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

I'm sure motsa means Williamsburg
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er, yeah, that's what I meant. <img src="/images/icons/blush.gif" alt="" />

[darn that copy and paste]

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

thnks mosta &amp; ishtar - a response within 48 hrs! VERY NICE

happy to be listed - one request - my co. name is Rileyinteractive - on all legal docs and marketing materials.

Can it be listed in dmoz as one word please...

I'll go away now - thnks thnks tnks <img src="/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

Why is it two words in your logo and copyright notice ?

We can only go by what's there, not what documents you have on your desk. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Re: DMOZ Submisson Status

Thanks for taking the time to actually view my site - the human view is a welcome touch compared to bots and such. <img src="/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the heads up on the copyright notice - that was an error on my part. <img src="/images/icons/blush.gif" alt="" /> I have updated the copyright notice in my site with Rileyinteractive.

The logo is actually Rileyinteractive with the interactive dropped below the horizontal plane - note the little "i" as opposed to a capital "I" as in Riley Interactive.

Thanks for considering this request.

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Done <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />